Lees Summit organization brings community together in fight against human trafficking [Video]

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — Community members came together Monday morning to address the issue of human trafficking. As recent as 2020, the nonprofit Polaris, which fights human trafficking, reported Missouri had the fourth highest incident rate of it.

The nonprofit Lee’s Summit Cares held a coffee and conversation about the problem Monday with six panelists. One of the panelists, Heidi Olson, founded a business that teaches healthcare workers what the signs of human trafficking are.

That business is called Paradigm Shift. She says kids are meeting human traffickers and predators online.

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“Parents may see changes in their behavior, shutting down a device quickly, withdrawing, going to their room for long periods of time and shutting their door, just sort of behaviors around their devices that seem different,” Olson said in an interview with FOX4 after the …